“ This public land, out on long term lease, but managed for us by the London Borough of Barnet, one would both hope and expect that this ancient site, not just part of the general area of the Battle of Barnet, or its ancient boundary hedge that runs across the site, but also part of the very ancient history of the early earthworks in North Middlesex/south Hertfordshire.
There is a very real possibly that part of the old earthworks line running north from Ravenscroft Gardens. (the Grimms Dyke (Grims Dike and various other spellings), which ran along the ridge from Pinner to Barnet, via Barnet Gate and like others, I firmly believe, it went towards and ended at Old Fold Manor.
One hopes this whole issue would/will be very sympathetically managed by the Borough, but if these proposals go ahead, it's a travesty of planning and an insult to history of this area. ”